Women's Voices in the Field of Educational Technology Our Journeys
In a professional world that has a tradition of the “good old boy” network, women long have fought for recognition in the educational technology field. In this book authors discuss the women in their own lives who have made the difference for them in
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Women's Voices in the Field of Educational Technology Our Journeys
Women’s Voices in the Field of Educational Technology
J. Ana Donaldson Editor
Women’s Voices in the Field of Educational Technology Our Journeys
Editor J. Ana Donaldson University of Northern Iowa—Retired Cedar Falls, IA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33451-6 ISBN 978-3-319-33452-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33452-3
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This collaborative effort is dedicated to the women who each traveled their own unique journey, to the women currently walking beside us, and to all the women who will follow in our footsteps And To my husband Al, who has walked beside me for many miles on my own journey and has helped to make this dream a reality.
Editor’s Introduction
We need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. —Alan Rickman
The idea for this edited book was birthed from a presidential panel at an AECT conference in 2015, titled: Walking in Their Footsteps (or High Heels): AECT Women Discuss the Influence of the Women who Paved the Way. The panelists were women leaders in the field who were influenced by their mentors: individuals who helped the women with the gender-related and professional challenges of the past. In a professional world that has a tradition of the “good old boy” network, women have long fought for recognition in the field of educational technology. During the afterglow of the panel session, the idea formed that it was time for a book to share the panelist’s stories and the stories of the women who had gone before them. This book was long overdue. I started with 15 names and ended with a final list of 31 individuals as potential chapter author
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